New JAR ATPL Exam - Carbon Emission Resource Management
We need to educate flightcrews in how to operate to greener standards.
Ask yourselves. Why in this day and age does one crew land at an airport with lets say 4.5 tons of fuel and 5 minutes behind him, another a/c from the same company, with exactly the same met/notam information lands with 2.5 tons of fuel? Lets assume that these two individual crews set off intending to land with these fuel loads and that it wasn't a freak flight planning situation. ( I say lets assume because I see it day in day out )
Can you see why the bean counters must be pulling their hair out over us pilots?
Is it time to either take away the final fuel calculation from the pilot and somehow automate it in line with the JAR requirements? After all, theres a lot of fat built into the JARs already, isn't there?
Spicy thing to suggest but its probably not a million miles away from reality!